Evernote Web Update: Share Notebooks on Facebook, New Gmail Connection and More

Over the past several months, we’ve made sharing your favorite notes with family, friends and colleagues much easier. With today’s Evernote Web update, we’re giving you a lot of new and improved ways to share stuff with your network of friends and family. You can now share notebooks via Facebook, enjoy simplified sharing over email, a new Gmail connection and more.

NEW: ‘Connected Services’ Settings Tab

Evernote Web now has a new tab in settings called Connected Services. Go there to connect your Evernote account to Facebook and Gmail. Here’s what these new connections let you do.

Share Notebooks on Facebook

Once you’ve connected your Evernote account to your Facebook account, a new checkbox will show up when you share a notebook with the world: Share on Facebook. After checking the button and clicking Save, the notebook, along with the description, will instantly appear on your Facebook Wall. Anyone that can view your Wall will be able to click the link and view the notebook.

If you have a notebook that you have previously shared that you’d like to share with your Facebook friends, then go to the Sharing options for that notebook and you’ll see a Post to Facebook button in the Share with the World section. Clicking that button will take you through a standard Facebook sharing process.

Email autocomplete with Gmail

Connecting Evernote to your Gmail account makes the process of sharing notes with people you know much faster. When you begin typing the email addresses of friends, coworkers and classmates, the Gmail connection will autocomplete the addresses, so you’ll no longer have to cross-check email addresses with your inbox or standalone address book.

The same autocomplete functionality will also show up when you invite a friend to try Evernote. If you haven’t invited a friend, do it now.

Coming soon to more places

We’re continually looking for new ways to help you get more out of Evernote. Helping you easily share your memories is a big part of that plan. Today, we’ve added these features to Evernote Web. Soon, they’ll be coming to other versions of Evernote. Stay tuned for this and much more.

Would be great if you could refine the Facebook sharing to allow the ability to define a group we could share a notebook with. For example, I have a FB group I’d love to share my Recipes folder with — but not my entire FB friend feed.

I’m currently planning a vacation to Thailand with two friends who also use Evernote. I collect all the important stuff in several notes (things we can do there, stuff we should take with us, plane and train tickets, etc) and put those in a notebook. What would be great is if we all three can edit the notes and see who changed what – maybe some colors to indicate.

I can imagine way more places where this would come in handy. For instance if I want to merge my notes taken during lectures with notes from fellow students. Or maybe in a work environment where several people are working on a draft of some document.

Evernote is already very versatile in ways you can use it (I basically use it for everything), now maybe it’s time to add a social component?

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i usually shy away from sharing my notes on twitter/facebook because i can never remember which ones i have shared, and i could end up adding something to a note that maybe i didnt want to share and i wouldnt know about it until it was too late probably

The email autocomplete feature is great – for Gmail users. But I use Thunderbird…

Earlier versions of Evernote used your NATIVE (eg Thunderbird) email client when you wanted to email a note. So you would click on “Email” in Evernote, and the note would pop up in your Thunderbird email compose window.

This was great! I had access not only to all my email addresses, but also my email ‘lists’ in Thunderbird, so I could easily send a note to my “Architects” list. Plus, I also had access to all the other functionality in my email program – Quicktext to add a branded header for my company to the top of the note, dropdown menu to choose which of my identities/email addresses to send the mail from, etc etc etc.

All this was lost when Evernote stopped supporting native email clients…

I asked Phil why this was discontinued, and he said it was because some people experienced problems with Evernote not finding their native email client when they clicked on “Email”. I understand this problem and why Evernote now has its own ‘send an email’ functionality, but PLEASE, for the rest of us who find this a frustrating straitjacket, could you not

Sharing within Evernote: like said so many time above, small groups, housemates and study teams that can share right inside of Evernote. often as simple as a grocery checklist or task list and as intuitive as sharing a spreadsheet or documents (we are signing up for Premium) – w/o then having to go into FB.

I’m confused. Does it only work with the web version? When I try to email a note from the PC version, it still doesn’t show the list of email addresses in my gmail account (which is linked with my outlook account).

Mark, you can use the “Share via Email” feature to post to your company Facebook Page. Have the owner of the Company Facebook page login to receive the upload email. You can learn more here: http://www.facebook.com/mobile/#